An average movie

Samuel L. Jackson is a pretty cool actor and, like anyone else, I like his work and I try to watch as many as possible of his movies. But the guy is some kind of workaholic, making about 5 movies a year, and even though I have watched about 60 of his movies already, I still have to see 40 more! As a result, not everything he is involved with is actually really amazing and some of those are obscure and sometimes even rather weird. This movie is a perfect example of his more obscure work. For the second time around, after the acclaimed 'Eve's bayou' (which I still need to watch), Jackson was working again with Kasi Lemmons and it was one of the rare occasion that he was playing the lead. That's is also the main attraction, Jackson's performance. Indeed, he gave a very hearfelt performance of mentally disturbed man, he was completely convincing to watch and quite spellbinding to watch. Unfortunately, they decided to mix this with a rather pedestrian and uninteresting police investigation so you could have some suspence, cliffhangers and other boring theatrics. Furthermore, the directing was decent but nothing really remarkable so, without Samuel L. Jackson the whole thing would have been rather pointless. To conclude, even though it is far from being, I still think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in Jackson's work.

6/10